Means for fitting eye sets in doll heads



Dec. 10, 1929. J. H. WILHELM MEANS FOR FITTING EYE SETS IN DOLL HEADS 5 Sheets-Sheet Filed Feb. 5, 1927 llll l! p, x F

Dec. 10, 1929. .1. H. WILHELM MEANS FOR FITTING EYE $ETS IN DOLL HEADS Filed Feb. 5, 1927 3 Sheets-Sheet Dec. 10, 1929.

J. H. WILHELM 1,739,197

MEANS FOR FITTING EYE SETS IN DOLL HEADS Filed Feb. 5, 1927 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 azvzwtoz Patented Dec. 10, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFEQE JOHN H. WILHELM, OF ROCKAWAY BEACH, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MARKON MANUFACTURING CO. INC., OF NEW YDEK, 1-3. Y., A COR'EORATION OF NEW YORK MEANS FOR FITTING EYE SETS IN BULL HEADS Application filed February 5, 1927. Serial No. 166,036.

This invention relates to a means for fittingeye sets in doll heads, and particularly to a frazing tool for smoothing and dressing the spaced eye openings or sockets oi doll heads and similar toys.

In the manufacture of doll heads the eye sockets are crudely formed at the time the heads are molded, and such smoothing and dressing of said sockets as may be required to enable them to properly receive and form an accurate fit with the eyeballs may be readily accomplished by the present implement or tool, and in order that the tool may be particularly adaptable for this use in doll heads which have restricted neck openings through which the toolmay be inserted, as

well as for other purposes, it is an object of practical and eflicient means for insuring ac- I curacy of operation of the tool within a doll heador the like.

Other objects and aims of the invention,

more or less specific than those referred to above, will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts and applications of principles constituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplated will be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as a part of this specification,

the like, a doll head being illustrated in heavy dotted lines.

Fig. 7 is a horizontal sectional View taken upon the plane of line VII-VII of Fig. 6, parts of he doll head being illustrated in section on said plane and the remainder of the doll head being illustrated by heavy dotted lines, and

Fig. 8 is a diagrammatic view corresponding with the central portion of Fig. 7 and i lustrating the manner in which an eye set supported by the same parts of the referring to the drawings for describing tail the structure illustrated therein, the ierence character L indicates a suitable support, as for instance an ordinary work table or the like. To this table is rigidly connected a standard G which at its upper end is formed with a horizontal bearing 1 within which is rotatably mounted a shaft 2. A pulley'or other suitable drive element 3 is connected to one end of this shaft adjacent the standard. The opposite end of the shaft projects a considerable distance beyond the standard and has a spiral gear & fiXed to its outer end.

The standard G is formed with two vertical openings as 5 and 6 therein which define three separate lugs or cars as 7, 8 and 9 spaced apart by the openings 5 and 6.

The bearing 1 within which the shaft 2 is mounted is formed through one of these cars as 7.

The intermediate ear, as 8, provides a hearing 10 within which is rotatably received i be dol head as previously used to locate the ployed to swing the frazing elements into t ieir most compact relation to each other for enabling. their passage through the restricted opening, and thereafter for swinging the frazing elements apart. and into a definite spaced relationship to each other ready to perform their frazing operation, the foot lever being swung back and forth each time the tool is inserted into a new piece of work.

In Figs. 6 and 7 is illustrated an arrangement by which to insure an accurate positioning of the frazing elements within a doll head or the like during the frazing operation. Ac-

cording to this suggestion it is contemplated that the doll head, or other piece of work upon which the tool is to be used shall be provided with appropriate sockets, grooves, ribs, lugs or other guide elements and that the tool shall be provided with co-operative lugs, ribs, grooves, sockets or other guide elements grooves, ribs, lugs or other guide elements of the head for thereby defining a precise position of the tool with respect to the head at the time the frazers are performing their function.

In the instance illustrated the doll head shown is formed with a pair of lugs as 47 and 48 arranged intermediate the eye sockets 49 and 50 of the head and in planes at opposite sides of a straight line centrally through said eye sockets, after the manner shown and described in the co-pending application of Alexander Konoff, Serial No. 161,915.

Also in the instance illustrated the tool shown is provided with a guide element as 51 of a shape and size to fit closely to the lugs 47 and 48 and thereby serve to hold the doll head in a precise relationship with the tool while the frazers are dressing out the eye sockets.

The guide element 51 is shown as a small plate arranged between the two frazing elements 41 and 42, being of reduced'width intermediate its length so as to permit movement of the frazing elements into close proximity with each other by means of the foot lever for purposes heretofore explained, and having fingers as 5252 at its ends for straddling the lugs and thus preventing any appreciable loose play between the plate and the lugs while the frazers are at work. The fingers 5252 in fact may be said to define grooves as 5353 at opposite ends of the plate one for receiving each of the lugs.

In order that the frazing elements may not reach their work until the guide element 51 has properly engaged the lugs 47 and 48 the guide element is preferably mounted upon a' spring support as 54 which is arranged to hold the guide element normally pressed upwardly with respect to the frazing elements and when a doll head has been telescoped over the tooland the lugs 47 and 48 thereof fitted into the grooves 53-'53 of the adapted to mate the sockets,

guide element or plate 51 the spring 54 will serve to hold the head elevated out of contact with the frazing elements until manual pressure has been applied by the operator against the head suflicient to flex the spring and thereby bring the eye sockets down against the frazing elements. As soon as the frazing operation has been completed and the manual pressure is relieved the spring will immediately operate to lift the head away from the frazing elements so that the head may now be readily removed from the tool.

It is noteworthy that movement of the head both downwardly into engagement with the frazing elements, and upwardly out of engagement with the the frazing elements, is in a positively predetermined path, defined by the manner of mounting, and the form, of the spring 54, and that hence no injury is likely to be done the eye sockets by careless handling of the head in moving it into and out of engagement with the frazing elements.

The spring 54 is illustrated as being fixed to a sleeve 55 as by means of a screw or the like 56. The sleeve 55 encircles the sleeve 13 and is connected with the standard G so that said sleeve 55 is stationary with the standard and thus the guide element or plate 51 is held always midway between the two frazing elements 41 and 42.

Also fixed to the sleeve 55 is a guide member 57, said guide member providing an opening 58 through which the spring 54 extends, the upper wall as 59 of said opening constituting a stop to be engaged by the spring for limiting the upward movement of the spring,

and the lower wall as 60 of said opening constit'uting a stop to limit the downward movement of the spring. The lower stop 60 is of particular importance in that in limiting the downward movement of the spring, and hence of the guide member or plate 51, it also serves to limit the downward movement of the doll head or other piece of work which engages the guide element 51 and in this way determines the limit to which the frazing elements 41 and 42 may move relatively into the work.

It will be apparent that by using the same lugs 47 and 48 as guide means by which to determine the operating position of the frazing elements for preparing the eye sockets for receiving doll eyes, or the like, as are subsequently used for guiding and supporting the eyes which are intended to fit into the frazed sockets little difficulty will be experienced in obtaining an accurate fit of the eyes.

The eye set illustrated in Fig. 8 consists of two semispherical eye members 61 and 62 carried at opposite ends of a cross rod 63,

A weight 65 is shown as t being connected with the eyes by means of a pair of arms 66 and 67 extending to the eyes respectively, the whole being substantially in accordance with the eye set, and its attaching means as illustrated and described in said 7 pending application, and the eye members 61 and 62 being of course spaced apart from centre to centre the same distance as are the frazing elements 41 and 4:2 when said frazing elements are at work. It is to be particularly noted that by the use of the tool herein shown the operation of dressing or frazing out the eye sockets is readily accomplished through the restricted neck opening of the doll head, it being unnecessary to have the head open at the top or back as has been customary heretofore.

As many changes could-be made in this construction without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings, shall be interpreted as illustrative only and not in a limiting sense. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is V 1. A frazing tool comprising a drive shaft, a pair of spindles arranged one at each side of said drive shaft and extending in a direction transverse to the length of said drive shaft, a pair of single gears fixed one to each of said spindles, a single gear fixed to the drive shaft and in constant mesh with said first gears, supporting means for said spindles by which said spindles may be inclined toward and away from each other about a pivot coinciding substantially with the axial centre of the drive shaft while maintaining mesh of said gears, and said gears all being spiral gears.

2. A frazing tool comprising a drive shaft, sleeves rotatable upon said drive shaft, frazing elements carried by said sleeves respectively, gears fixed to said frazing elements respectively, a gear fixed to said drive shaft having operative connection with said first gears to drive the frazing elements from said drive shaft, and means engaging said sleeves by which to rotate the sleeves for thereby adjusting the frazing elements with respect to each other.

3. A frazing tool comprising a drive shaft, sleeves rotatable upon said drive shaft, frazing elements carried by said sleeves respectively, gears fixed to said frazing elements respectively, a gear fixed to said drive shaft havin operative connection with said first gears to drive the frazing elements from said drive shaft, each of said sleeves having a laterally projecting stud thereon, a member engaging said studs by which to operate said studs for rotating the sleeves and for thereby adjusting the frazing elements with respect [to each other, limiting stops for said last mentioned member, and means by which said limiting stops are adjustable.

4. A frazing tool comprising adrive shaft, sleeves rotatable upon said drive shaft,fraz ing elements carried by said sleeves respectively, gears fixed to said frazing elements respectively, a gear fixed to said drive shaft having operative connection with said first gears to drive the frazing elements from said drive shaft, each of said sleeves having a laterally projecting stud thereon, a member engaging said studs by which to operate said studs for rotating the sleeves and for thereby adjusting the frazing elements with respect to each other, limiting stops for said last mentioned member, and means by which said member may be releasably held with respect to one of said limiting stops.

5. A tool for operating upon the eye sockets of doll heads or the like comprising a pair of elements spaced apart intended to operate upon the eye sockets respectively, means to operate said elements, and means comprised in the tool adapted to engage a co-operative part of the work to thereby guide said elements with respect to the work, said last mentioned means being of a resilient character and being arranged to normally hold the work away from said elements but by its resiliency permitting manual movement of the work into engagement with said elements.

6. A tool for operating upon the eye sockets of doll heads or the like comprising a pair of elements spaced apart intended to operate upon the eye sockets respectively, means to operate said elements, and means comprised in the tool adapted to engage a co-operative part of the work to thereby guide said elements with respect to the work, said last mentioned means being of a resilient character and being arranged to normally hold the work away from said elements but by its resiliency permitting manual movement of the work into engagement with said elements, together with stop means to determine the limit of movement of said resilient guide.

7. A tool for preparing the eye sockets of a doll head to receive the eyes of an eye set therein, where the head includes attaching means to which the eye set may be connected, said tool having parts to operate upon said eye sockets, and having another part arranged to engage the mentioned attaching means and to thereby guide to said eye sockets the parts of the tool intended to operate upon said sockets.

8. A tool for preparing the spaced eye sockets of a doll head to receive the spaced eyes of an eye set therein, where the head of the eyes of the eye set and intended to operate upon said eye sockets respectively, and said tool having a guide part adapted to engage said lugs to thereby guide the frazing elements with respect to the eye sockets.

9. A frazing tool comprising a drive shaft, a plurality of frazing elements, carrying members for said frazing elements respectively rotatably mounted co-axially With the drive shaft, gears fixed to said frazing elements respectively, a gear fixed to the drive shaft having operative connection with the first gears to drive the frazing elements from said drive shaft, and a pivotally mounted lever engaging said frazer carrying members to rotate said members by pivotal movement of the lever thereby moving the frazing elements With respect to each other.

10. A frazing tool comprising a drive'shaft, a pair of frazing elements, a pair of frazer carriers rotatably mounted co-axially With the drive shaft, gears fiXedto the frazing elements respectively, a gear fixed to the drive shaft having operative connection With the gears to drive the frazing elements from said drive shaft, the frazer carriers having studs thereon spaced apart in the direction of length of the drive shaft and projecting in a direction laterally of said shaft, and a lever pivotally mounted at a point intermediate said studs and connected with said studs to move the studs in opposite directions by pivotal movement of the lever, for thereby moving the frazing elements with respect to each other.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

- JOHN H. l/VILHELM. 

